Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1887-11-18
AFTER THE BATTLE,
tThe Voice !

liHe NulCt
"tt's an up hill sort of job, isn't i,2'
said one Prohibitionist to another in
Brooklyn last Tuesday, referring to the
building up of the new party. YES"
was the pompt response, "and that's the
beauty Of it. can get plenty of down
hill jobs, but don't want TO go down hill;
l want 10 go up"
We are going up. Tuesdays election
is another glorious indication OF IT,. The
Prohibition vote in this State, where the
hardest fght was made against us, has
increased from 10000, in the gubernator-
iai election two years ago, and from 36,-
600 for Judge Groo last year, to about
45, 900 for DR.. Huntington this year. In
no contest ever waged in this Union. prob
ably has more determined and syaiem-
attic and willy assault upon your lines been
made, than here IN New York State dur
ing this campaign. What ex-senator
Plat said in his personal letter, Oct. 10,
was recognized by all the Republican
leaders, namely:
New York is the pivotal State; this IL
practically, the Presidential canvass next
year; and defeat now will, in all probahil-
ity, mean disaster then aud Democratic
supremacy for many years 10 come. Go
to work systematically TO keep down the
Prohibition vote, for therein lies our chief
danger.
In spite of Mr.. Plat,'s pleading, in spite
OF The Tribune's frantic appeals and
threats, in spite of the willy misrepresenta
tions scattered broadcast by the Anti-sal-
oon Republican organization, in spite Of
the personal Liberty" dodge and the cry
for High License, in spite of Henry Georges
canvass, in.spite Of all the multiplied forces
chat can be set in motion by great nntion-
al party in critical State election, the
Prohibition army has held It's ranks un-
shattered and made splendid advance.
No one'who has viewed the contest fiom
the outside can appreciate the spendor of
this achievement or the Importance of the
results that will follow.
Massachusetts,, Ohio and Nebraska were
the only other States when Stale campaign
was systematically waged By the Prohib-
vance, apparently larger In proportion
than has New. York. Nebraska, il seems
likely,!at The time of going to press, has
made larger proportional increase than
either New York or massachusetts. A.
to our vote in Ohio, we are still in the
dark.
In Pennsylvania there was State cleo
tion, but Judge OF the Supreme Court
and the State Treasurer were the only
officers to be elected. While our party
has msnfully contested the field, il ha.
not done 50 tn anything like the extent
that il did in tho Wolfe campaign last
year, and the probability is that there is "A
small falling of in the vote. In New
Jersey and Rhode Island there was no
State ticket in the field. and, Of course
no State campaign.
Once more the conscience vote has spo-
ken with increasing power and emphasis
Once more the new party, small compare.
lively in rnmbers, but strong IN Its cohe
sse power, its freedom from factional dis
turhance, and its nalionaiity, retaining its
hold and maintaing its growth in all sec
tions-Once more that new party has prov
EN- its power as u political factor thai
must be reckoned with in every campaign
Of the future.
With fortyfi five thousand votes, solid ns
the old Macedonian phalnX, in the State
Of New York, the Prohibition party is
fast becoming, il it has not already be-
come, the arbiter OF the nations destinies.
The strain to which 1t IL subj citing the
old political org mutations is Something
fearful. They cannot stand it much
longer. A break at an early d,y is AZ in
evitable AS fale, and Tire fecrystaliz, ,tion
of the moral aud progressive ele,nen,s of
the country will he around that compact
and uncompronl-ing nucleus Of $4,000
voters. Aud the
The SALOON MUST GO.